Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-05-07
LIFE AND WORK OF
Henry Ward Beecher, by Thomas
w. Knox.

Thomas w. Knox's "Life and Work
of Henry Ward Beecher" has already
taken rank as the standard Life OF this
famous man. It is complete, impartial
and authentic record of Mr.. Beecher's
public career and private life from the
cradle to the grave.
It tells of his birthplace and early
home; of his boyhood and youth; low
he contemplated running away to sea
and the preparations he made for it,;
of his college days and the pranks he
played; of his marriage; of his work as a
country minister; of his labors for the
downtrodden slave; of his art as a
preacher; of his power as an orator; Of
his work in England during the civil war;
of his editorial and political work;
of Plymouth Church; of the great scandal
and the charges made by Theodore Til
ton; of the memorable trial that followed;
of his travels in Europe; of his illness,
death, etc.
The author narrates Mr.. Beecher's
struggles and experience while poor
country minister, when his entire income
was less than three hundred dollars per
annum, a part of which was payed in
corn, potatoes, and other products OF the
soil. He tells how at this period in his
life, when an increasing family compelled
him to build larger house to live in, he
hauled the logs himself, and his neigh
bors aided him to put it up. The white
wash and paint he applied himself. He
chopped the wood, drew the water, peeled
the potatoes, cooked the food, served it,
washed the dishes, and cleaned up the
house. He performed all these duties,
and yet rode twenty miles through the
woods and across the prairie to the log
school house in which religious service
was held, preached, rode back again,
cooked the dinner, preached in his own
church, returned to nurse his sick wife
and attend to the children; got the sup
per, and spent the evening in his own
prayer meeting.
At the height of his fame 1t would have
been impossible to find man on the face
of the earth on whom the sun of fortune
shone more brilliantly than on Henry
Ward Beecher. His influence was great;
his income was enormous; he was In
great demand as a lecturer and speaker.
Soon, the breath of scandal spread over
the land; suspicious were excited; the
scandal grew; friends we're estranged;
the church was In arms; and the country
rang with sensational stories, and the
outcome was suit for 100000 damages,
brought by Theodore Tilton against Mr..
Beecher. The trial lasted six months.
The jury did not agree Mr.. Beechers
expenses alone in this great trial were
over 100000 The story is fully told in
this volume. In every chapter the author
weaves In anecdote after anecdote, incl
dent after incident, story after story.
The fine steel-plate portrait of Mr..
Beecher is from photograph taken just
before his death. It also contains fine
portrait of Mrs. Beecher and many other
fine engravings. In short, the volume
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Price $500.
OTTAWA PUBLISHING Co.,
Ottawa, Kan.
MRS. K. B. STONEX, Agent,
Wa-Keeney. Kansas